Word: needful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...number of students and electives have, for the present, practically attained their maximum, and, for some time to come, no great extension of the term of the semi-annuals need be feared...
...mind two hours. I had no sooner thrown myself on my lounge to think over my comfortable prospects, than I was startled by a tremendous yell of 'Jim' just outside my window. As my name happens to be Jim, I thought that there must be some very urgent need of me, and flung open the window just in time to hear a man in the fourth story begin a conversation with his friend below. It was carried on in a very loud and animated tone, and lasted about ten minutes. I consoled myself with the thought that this annoyance would...
...think we need some new game here to rouse the flagging interest in Athletics. The interest in foot-ball has visibly waned, and base-ball is not much better. Lacrosse is superior to foot-ball as a game, inasmuch as there are no long delays from fouls, and as skill rather than brute force is necessary in order to play well. The popularity it has met with wherever it has been introduced...
...facts disclosed by a correspondent in regard to the abstraction of reserved books from the Library need little comment from us. Laying aside the question of the want of honor shown by those who allow themselves such liberties, we merely wish to remind students how injurious to their interests it is to allow the rules of the Library to go for nothing. The system of reserving books, which has proved so successful and so useful to us all, would have to be abandoned if the practice our correspondent has exposed became common; it is therefore incumbent on all students...
...race and a single-scull race could be arranged between the two colleges, to come off at the same time with the "Varsity," it would rather increase than diminish the interest. But as the H. U. B. C. offered to fix the race as early as six weeks, if need be, before the race at New London, it is difficult to see how this could have an injurious effect on the eight-oared race. The New York and Boston newspapers state, moreover, that it was voted to aid Mr. E. P. Livingston with influence and money if he personally challenges...